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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: skyman8081 on 26 May 2005, 05:56
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What do you prefer to drive? A nice and powerful Manual Transmission, or an Underpowered at the expense of "ease of use."
I drive a stick, it's the only way to go, best way to drive, with power under your feet.
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It depends on what kind of car we're talking about here.
Sports car (convertibles, Corvettes, high-end imports): Manual, no question.
Mid-sized luxury: Automatic. It is luxury, after all.
Compact non-sport (Corolla, Accord): Automatic, but only because they can be short-shifted.
Sport hatchbacks (Civic DX, Scion xA): Definitely stick for that little "something extra."
Van/Truck/SUV: Automatic. I don't like having to deal with twenty gears when a computer could be doing it every bit as inefficiently.
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a truck must be manual
you can't pull shit as well with an automatic.
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a truck must be manual
you can't pull shit as well with an automatic.
Just so we're clear, I meant 3/4-ton Suburbans and Excursions as SUVs, and panel trucks (and tractor-trailers) as trucks. On light trucks I'd have no trouble endorsing a manual transmission.
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I don't drive, you insensitive clod!
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:(
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Tiptronic, auto - but can be manual.
Manuals are a pain in the arse in the city because of lots of traffic lights and crap like that, so you just shift the thing into Drive and use your break. However auto's are brainless sods when your travelling through the hills or you have a trailer with your big momma in the back. So you shift the thing into the right bottom corner and then move the stick back to go up a gear, and back to go down a gear. Thats what my dads car has. It's a Ford BA Falcon, which is a standard model family stationwagon, I believe they are exclusive to Australia (I know they are australian designed and made, except some of the electronics). Its pretty cool to drive with, the car handles hella well if you want to bash it through the Australian bushland hills.
Other cars also have this feature.
The BA Falcon also has a fly-by-wire accelerator, which has its benifits of being able to get an easy feel for speed, however if you were on the freeway doing 110km/h and suddenly there was a technical failure you would have several other cars planted in your rear end.
I've only been driving for less then a year myself, it's been a great car to learn to drive in.
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I never learned how to use a manual, so I really have no other choice.
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Manual. I once drove in an automatic, and I was grabbing for the stick all the time.
I simply love shifting gear and I'll never buy a car with an automatic.
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I can't drive.
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I can't/don't drive, and I hope I'll never need to own a car.
I do like manuals though, they're as important as any other documentation :D
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Manual I suppose - I've never driven an automatic before so I can't realy make an informed decision.
As far as vehicles go I'm an A to B person, I only have a Honda CG125 motor cycle and I can't see myself getting anything else untill I really need to.
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I'm a non-driver. If you don't know what that is, think non-swimmers.
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First car was an automatic with P-R-N-D-2-1 which I'd shift anyway.
Current pickup is manual which I often clutchless shift in town, up gears and down gears.
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Screw stick shifts!
The closest i get is driving in a car and switching to 'autostick' just for fun
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I never drove stick...
but go with automatic so you can hold your beer in one hand and still drive.
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A little late, but, if you don't drive, don't post. Simple really.
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in fact, I do drive. people crazy, that is.
mr X
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I never drove stick...
but go with automatic so you can hold your beer in one hand and still drive.
Actually legal in Texas. :D
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Yea, I hear McDonalds are getting the Senate to ban Manual Shift.
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I never drove stick...
but go with automatic so you can hold your beer in one hand and still drive.
You can do that with manual too. Takes some practice.
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You can do that with manual too. Takes some practice.
Just have to steer with your knees.
No problem with wimpy modern over-servo'd racks :)
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stickshift. its a control thing....im really good at keeping cars on the road at insane rates of speed. and not rice wagons either........ive only wrecked when i was doing the speed limit, and ive recovered from wicked 110mph skids in the rain....in a family sedan. got ahold of my chevy berretta and sadly buried my license in legal troubles........just a word of wisdom
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but you didn't vote...
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Lifetime barred license.... guessing my opinion doesn't mean shit here.
But still, automatic.
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Lifetime barred license
Dare I ask how?
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I own a Ford Ranger and a Hyundai Sonata.
I wish the Ford had a manual transmission, for the reasons Orethrius pointed out, but it's an automatic. I bought the truck from my mother six years ago, when I desperatly needed a vehicle, so I didn't have a choice back then.
As for the Hyundai, the V6 model (which we have) only comes with automatic, and the four cylider model which has a manual option was WAY underpowered. My wife can't drive one anyway, so it was out of the question. The hyundai has the 'shiftronic' transmission which is basically a psuedo-manual transmission with an automatic clutch. It lets you change the gears when you want, but it won't let you do insane things like throw it into 1st gear while doing 90mph, or blow up the engine by redlining the engine. It's actually pretty cool. If you throw it into manual mode, you can just leave it alone and it acts as sort of a 'performance mode'. In regular mode, the transmission will shift well below redline if you are at full throttle, but in manual mode it waits till it redlines to shift. This helps out acceleration a bit.
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Just have to steer with your knees.
No problem with wimpy modern over-servo'd racks :)
Cupholders help a helluvah lot you know ;)
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Dare I ask how?
Accident, insurance refused to cover, the nephew of the head of the DMV was in my car. He promptly barred my license permanently and asked a judge to give me an "appropriate" sentence. I got a $2000 fine and a 2 year suspended prison sentence... for a $500 traffic ticket. :(
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Accident, insurance refused to cover, the nephew of the head of the DMV was in my car. He promptly barred my license permanently and asked a judge to give me an "appropriate" sentence. I got a $2000 fine and a 2 year suspended prison sentence... for a $500 traffic ticket. :(
Shitty.
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Accident, insurance refused to cover, the nephew of the head of the DMV was in my car. He promptly barred my license permanently and asked a judge to give me an "appropriate" sentence. I got a $2000 fine and a 2 year suspended prison sentence... for a $500 traffic ticket. :(
[OFFTOPIC]That's judicial bias, and if I were you I'd get an attorney once I could afford it and appeal the verdict. Better yet, file a lawsuit for finding of fact against the judge and get him thrown off the bench, that's bullshit.[/OFFTOPIC]
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Conclusion: automatic is for people who drive long endless roads daily and can't afford cruise control :p
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i perfer manual transmissions: if you do to i like this site:
http://www.standardshift.com (http://www.standardshift.com)
they have a great fourm section
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Most cars in my country are stick shift.
I feel uncomfortable with an automatic. I can't directly control the RPM!